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Miles Okazaki: The Sky Below
by Glenn Astarita
Electric guitarist Miles Okazaki—also using electronics—and his rhythm section comprise three-fifths of alto sax great Steve Coleman's current band, as keyboardist Matt Mitchell rounds out this quartet for the leader's second release for Pi Recrodings, but his fifth album overall. And while the album length is a little over 39-minutes, many artists are cutting back some ...
Alicia Olatuja: Intuition: Songs From The Minds Of Women
by Angelo Leonardi
È un tributo alla creatività delle donne in generale e delle cantautrici in particolare, questo di Alicia Olatuja, che interpreta composizioni di Tracy Chapman, Joni Mitchell, Violeta Parra, Sade Adu, Kate Bush e altre. Alicia ne aggiunge di proprie e partecipa come arrangiatrice in un progetto fortemente sentito e condiviso col produttore Kamau Kenyatta, ...
The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: DIVA + the Boys
by Jack Bowers
After more than twenty-five years as one of the world's most renowned big bands, drummer Sherrie Maricle's superlative all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra invited a quartet of “the boys" onboard to help ensure the ensemble's twelfth album's success. Even though DIVA needs no consorts to affirm its unremitting mastery, it is nonetheless pleasurable to witness these talented ...
Oded Tzur: Here Be Dragons
by Mike Jurkovic
It's the sound of unresolved resolve. A broader scope of the human scale. That we all ask the same questions, walk down the same roads and it is that migration in, around and through our common, spacious moments and moral corners wherein we reach our conclusions, if not our destinations.That's just part of what ...
Etsuko Tajima: Infinite Possibilities
by Jerome Wilson
Etsuko Tajima is a Japanese pianist now living in New York who shows her talent as both a player and singer on this, her first CD, recorded back in 2016. Her piano style is an attractive mix of jazz and classical elements often marked with an easygoing sense of swing. It blends well with ...
Satoko Fujii, Ramon Lopez: Confluence
by Alberto Bazzurro
Oltrepassata la soglia dei sessanta, traguardo che ha cadenzato il 2018 al ritmo di un disco al mese, Satoko Fujii, avendoci evidentemente preso gusto, sta continuando a produrre nuovi lavori magari non più a quei ritmi ma comunque con generosa disponibilità, diciamo così. Svelatosi una ventina d'anni or sono in particolare nei gruppi ...
Mezcla: Shoot The Moon
by Chris May
It is not only in London that UK jazz is being revitalised by turbulent young rebels. London is certainly the most exciting centre, with black and women musicians gaining unprecedented visibility, bringing particular sensibilities with them. But other cities, notably Birmingham and Manchester, have developed vibrant new scenes, too. Viewed from down south, ...
Ivar Grydeland & Henry Kaiser: Into The Arctic Dreamtime
by Mark Corroto
Homeostasis is defined as a steady state of internal conditions, i.e. your comfort zone. A body prefers to maintain a temperature of 98.6 Celsius and a pH reading of 7. But homeostasis also describes a resistance to change. That is why we heat our houses in winter and cool them in summer, to live within our ...
Urs Leimgruber - Andreas Willers - Alvin Curran - Fabrizio Spera: Rome-Ing
by Glenn Astarita
These venerable European improvisers tease and taunt the listeners' psyches with free-form minimalist sound-shaping designs and subdued inner-workings with gradual buildups and asynchronous movements, countered by explosive episodes of angst, tinted with creaky sub-motifs. With four lengthy works recorded live in Rome--hence, the album title—American pianist Alvin Curran and Swiss guitarist Andreas Willers incorporate electronics into ...
Joao Lencastre's Communion 3: Song(s) of Hope
by Alberto Bazzurro
João Lencastre è un giovane batterista portoghese (per l'esattezza di Lisbona) che incide a proprio nome dal 2007 e in questo caso specifico firma il secondo album alla testa del suo Communion 3 (dopo Movements in Freedom, del 2017, sempre su Clean Feed), regalandoci una musica che, nell'insidiosa formula del piano trio, sa mantenersi su un ...
